After being criticized about the lack of diversity on Saturday Night Live, the show’s founding producer Lorne Michaels has finally issued a response.

In an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, Michaels said he anticipates adding a black female cast member in the future. “It’s not like it’s not a priority for us,” he said. “It will happen. I’m sure it will happen.”

The response comes after Civil Rights group Colorofchange.org sent Michaels and the other show producers a letter asking how they will ensure that black women are represented on the show.

“Since Maya Rudolph’s departure in 2007, SNL has failed to cast even one Black woman — yet still manages to traffic in dehumanizing portrayals that make race and gender the butt of the joke,” the group said in a letter to SNL obtained by Hollywood Reporter. The SNL troupe includes three actors of color: Kenan Thompson, Jay Pharoah and Iranian-American Nasim Pedrad.

In order for SNL to hire a black woman, they would need to fire all of their corny writers who couldn't make a pot head laugh. .That show is so boring that I wouldn't be surprise if it goes off the air. BTW, why is this show still on?

"yet still manages to traffic in dehumanizing portrayals that make race and gender the butt of the joke,”...seriously ?...seriously ? If they added a black woman to the show would it mean they were no longer trafficking in dehumanizing portrayals...that would somehow make it alright. It's called SATIRE people...everyone is EQUALLY a target...but maybe EQUALITY is not what Colorforchange wants...instead they'd like special treatment or...what's that called again...oh yeah...INEQUALITY.